Ernest Fourneau
- Category : 1872-births
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Split - Small (16,53,57)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Tension 3
Biography
French medicinal chemist who played a major role in the discovery of synthetic local anesthetics, as well as in the synthesis of suramin. He authored more than two hundred scholarly works, and has been described as having "helped to establish the fundamental laws of chemotherapy that have saved so many human lives". He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. He died on 5 August 1949, aged 76, in Ascain, France.